Dr Muhammad Bilal

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

Profile

Dr Muhammad Bilal is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University. His current research investigates how future digital infrastructure can sense, reason, and act while remaining safe, verifiable, and resilient. His work encompasses trustworthy autonomous networks, certified control of intelligent network systems, agentic network operations, AI-enabled cybersecurity, neuromorphic and spiking approaches to networking, and secure 6G and emerging network infrastructures. A central theme of his research is the design of adaptive networked systems that can operate under uncertainty while preserving safety, performance, privacy, and operational trust.

Dr Bilal received his PhD in Information and Communication Network Engineering from the University of Science and Technology, Korea, at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute campus, in 2017. He subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Korea University’s Smart Quantum Communication Center. Before joining Lancaster University in 2023, he was an Associate Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea. His research has been supported through national and international programmes in Korea and China and has resulted in more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conferences, together with granted patents in the United States and Korea.

He serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal. He also contributes extensively to the organisation of international conferences, including service on the Technical Program Committees of IEEE ICC, IEEE VTC, IEEE CNC, and IEEE INFOCOM. He has served as Symposium Chair for ACM SIGTrust 2026, Track Chair for IEEE AIoT 2026, and General Chair of IEEE DSS 2026.

IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Science and Systems
Participation in conference - Academic

ACM SIGTRUST (External organisation)
Membership of board

IEEE AIoT (External organisation)
Membership of board

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (External organisation)
Membership of board

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity

EPSRC College (External organisation)
Membership of board

Smart Content Networking
Invited talk

Digital Twin-aided Edge Vehicle Task Offloading: an Adaptive PPO-based Approach
Oral presentation

Internet of Things (Journal)
Editorial activity

Edge Intelligence-Driven Meteorological Knowledge Graph for Real-Time Decision-Making
Oral presentation

IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Journal)
Editorial activity

Physical Communication (Journal)
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IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity

ACM (External organisation)
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Alexandria Engineering Journal (Journal)
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IEEE (External organisation)
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IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) (External organisation)
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Clean Slate Networking-Named data networking
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Effective Caching for the Secure Content Distribution in Information-Centric Networking
Oral presentation

Time Aware Least Recent Used (TLRU) Cache Management Policy in ICN
Oral presentation

Network Aware and Power-based Resource Allocation in Mobile Ad hoc Computational Grid
Oral presentation

Throughput enhancement by concurrent transmission in WPAN with multiple antennas
Oral presentation

An intelligent future mobile terminal architecture
Oral presentation

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cyber Security Research Centre (Networking)
  • Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
  • LIRA - Security and Defence
  • SCC (Networking)